Bill Schiffer Linear Oil Paintings

Item Details

A pair of Bill Schiffer oil paintings on canvas. These paintings have round compositions and canvas grounds. They are painted with a white background and linear black shapes composed radially though the composition. One piece depicts a construction worker with a hardhat climbing on a ladder and is signed to the lower right of the image and dated ‘2-83’. The other piece depicts a manhole cover which reads ‘Manhattan WDPW’ and is unsigned. These works are presented unframed.

Born in New York, Bill Schiffer rose to prominence as a painter and sculptor in the early 1980s. Though he still works in many two dimensional and three dimensional art mediums, Schiffer is most well known for his unique handcrafted jewelry, which he started designing after a foray experimenting with wearable art in the fashion scene. Bill Schiffer’s art and jewelry has been shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, as well as major museums in Italy, Japan, Germany and the United States. His work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Elle, Bazaar, Women’s Wear Daily, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan.

Condition

- light wear to edges and corners; minor cracks to surface; light surface wear.

Dimensions

- measures one.

Item #

17NYC160-135